FA’s contract offer has made Erikssons position even less clear

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SO MUCH for ending the speculation about Sven-Göran Eriksson’s future. Instead, the FA’s offer of a new contract has clouded the picture and the only clarification after a weekend of interviews with the England head coach was that the uncertainty will probably last beyond the start of the European Championship finals in June.

The FA had hoped that the offer to extend his contract by two years, until 2008, would force Eriksson to show his hand but his employer should have seen from the past few years that the Swede is not easily ruffled, even when his complicated love life